Fisch Money Making Guide

How Much a Fish Sells For

Every fish has a price per kilogram. The merchant pays that price times the fish's weight, times its mutation, times 1.85 if it is Shiny and 1.85 if it is Sparkling. A fish carries one mutation; Shiny and Sparkling are attributes that stack with it and with each other.

• Weight. A fish rolls a weight between its lightest and its base weight. 7% of catches get a boost on top, which is how Big and Giant fish happen; a fish can reach 2.1× its base weight without other weight bonuses.
• Example. A Bull Shark at average weight (110 kg) sells for 1,523 C$. With the Midas mutation (2.5×) the same fish sells for 3,808 C$.

The Trade & Value Calculator works this out for any fish, weight and mutation.

Anglers: the Best Price for a Fish

Anglers are NPCs with quests that never run out: each quest asks for a random fish from the bestiary of the place where the Angler stands, and pays 6 to 8 times that fish's price in C$, plus XP. A mutation counts only as the square root of its multiplier, while Shiny and Sparkling count in full. After a quest you wait 2 minutes for the next one.

• What it is worth. An average Bull Shark that sells for 1,523 C$ earns 9,138 to 12,185 C$ from an Angler. With Midas it sells for 3,808 C$ and earns 14,449 to 19,266 C$, so a mutation helps less here than at the merchant.
• Where they are. There are 11 Anglers: Moosewood, Roslit Bay, Sunstone Island, Terrapin Island, The Depths, Ancient Isle, Forsaken Shores, Crimson Cavern, Luminescent Cavern, Scoria Reach, Lost Jungle.
• Item rewards. A quest can also give 5 Bait, Carbon or Common Crates (23.34%), Enchant Relic (15.77%), 2 to 5 Starlight Worms (15.77%), Treasure Map (12.62%), Exalted Relic (7.89%), Aurora Totem (6.31%), Rainbow Totem (3.15%), among others.
• Harder requests later. An Angler may ask for any Legendary fish after 10 quests, any Mythical fish after 25, any Exotic or Relic fish after 50, any Secret fish after 75 and any Apex fish after 100.

Sell at the Right Moment

• Rainbow. Fish sell for 1.5× their value, and the weather gives 8× Luck. It comes naturally only after Rain (about 1 in 169), or from a Rainbow Totem.
• Goldstorm. An admin event that lasts 5 minutes: every fish sold pays 25% extra. Only admins can start it.
• Mermaid's Favor. 10% more C$ for 5 minutes, from Lorelei's quest.
• Gold Coin. 25% more C$ for 30 seconds, from a Pot o' Gold or a Developer Gift.

Rods That Add a Mutation

A mutation multiplies a fish's value, and some rods give one to a share of their catches. These are the rods on the progression path that do; the chance is per catch unless a condition is given. The Rod Advisor says where to get each one.

From each rod's ability on the Fisch Wiki. All mutations and their values are in the Fisch mutation list.

The Appraiser

The Appraiser in Moosewood re-rolls a fish's weight and mutation as if you caught it again, for 30% of its current price (22.5% with the Appraiser's Luck gamepass). The result can be worse than what you had. Appraising never removes Shiny or Sparkling, and the mutation bonuses of your rod and enchantment do not count, while server events such as a Mutation Surge do. It makes most sense for a valuable fish with no mutation and a low weight; a fish that already has a strong mutation risks losing it.

Where to Fish

The Location Ranker sorts every spot by what the most valuable fish your rod can catch there sell for. With a Magma Rod, before you unlock any area, the top three are Lost Jungle, The Ocean and Sunstone Island. Valuable fish are usually rare, so that list says where the money fish are, not what an hour earns; the calculator above estimates that.

How Luck Changes What You Catch

The Fisch Wiki describes the direction of each effect but publishes no exact formula, so this is the direction only:

• More Luck, rarer fish. With Luck above 0%, Legendary, Mythical, Exotic, Secret and Apex fish bite more often in proportion to your Luck, and Trash and Common fish less often. Other rarities fall into one group or the other by how common the fish is.
• Time, weather and season. A fish bites much less often outside its time of day, and more often in its weather and season.
• Max Kg. A fish whose lightest weight is above your rod's Max Kg never bites on that rod, whatever your Luck.

Other Ways to Earn C$

• Bestiary pages. Finishing a place's page pays C$ and XP: Moosewood 2,000 C$, Roslit Bay 2,000 C$, Treasure Island 20,000 C$, Atlantis 35,000 C$, Ancient Isle 50,000 C$, Tidefall 80,000 C$, for example. Completing every page pays 50,000 C$.
• Personal Aquarium. Up to 10 fish on display earn C$, XP and items every hour: roughly a quarter of each fish's base price per hour while you play, and a quarter of that while you are offline. A second copy of the same fish earns less.
• The official group. Joining the Fisching group on Roblox gives a one-time 5,000 C$.
• Chests and crates. Sunken Chests, Treasure Chests and crates contain C$ among their items.
• Perfect catches. Reeling a fish in without losing any progress adds 10 C$ and 50% more XP.

Frequently Asked Questions